Deception, Casanova-like writers and mountain villages
Among the ten new releases hitting German theatres today are six German (co-)productions.
These include Alexander Adolph’s So Glücklich War Ich Noch Nie [+see also:
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Produced by Berlin-based Eikon Media, the film stars Devid Striesow as a reformed crook in love with a prostitute (Nadja Uhl) and finds himself caught up in her feverish role-playing, losing his sense of reality.
Meanwhile, established filmmaker Jan Schütte is releasing his seventh feature, Love Comes Lately [+see also:
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Selected at the Toronto and Sundance festivals, Love Comes Lately was produced by Cologne’s Zero West Filmproduktion and Berlin’s Zero Fiction Film in co-production with Austrian company Dor Film. The title is distributed by 3Rosen.
Zorro is launching the docufiction-style comedy Die Ludolfs - Der Film [+see also:
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Meanwhile, Sabotakt is hoping for success with Tarek Ehlail’s musical film Chaostage: We are Punks!.
Cinemagoers will be delighted to discover Aida Begic’s Snow [+see also:
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Rekord-Film is re-releasing Eugen Schuhmacher’s 1966 West German animal documentary Alaska - Wildnis am Rande der Welt.
Finally, MFA is launching renowned Danish director Ole Bornedal’s Just Another Love Story [+see also:
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(Translated from French)
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